ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,223, issued on April 22, was assigned to SABIC Global Technologies B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).
"Piezoelectric composite material and method" was invented by Meghna Markanday (Bangalore, India), Pradeep Singh (Bangalore, India), Venkata Ramanarayanan Ganapathy Bhotla (Bangalore, India), Nandini D R (Bangalore, India) and Suresh Velate (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric composite material is formed from a cellulosic material and an inorganic piezoelectric material dispersed in a piezoelectric polymer. The piezoelectric polymer of the composite material has a dielectric constant of from 10 or more. A...